When i click the BIND service in services, i get the following error
"named failed. The error was: Starting named: /usr/sbin/named: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[FAILED]" . I have found that it is no such directory even reinstalling the bind . Any idea why ? Thanks

The file libcrypto.so.4 is missing. It's part of libopenssl.
Install libopenssl and then try again.

Hi, how to install libopenssl ? Thanks

Assuming Fedora Core 3, libopenssl comes in the openssl RPM. Download and install from your distribution media or from a mirror.

eg.

For i386, 486, 586
ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/r...7a-40.i386.rpm

For i686
ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/r...7a-40.i686.rpm

For x86_64
ftp://mirrors.secsup.org//pub/linux/...-40.x86_64.rpm

i just issue command like rpm -v xxx.rpm ? If from my media, i just find that .rpm file and click on it ? in the add/remove program i do not see any libopenssl components.

For Fedora Core 3 you need to install openssl. It comes with libopenssl, which includes libcrypto.so.4.

Look for openssl in your add/remove programs and install from there.
Alternatively, in a window manager, you can search your distribution, and double-click an RPM to install
Alternatively, if you want to use the command line, rpm -i /path/to/xxxx.rpm will install xxxx.rpm
Alternatively, download it from a mirror and use double-click or use rpm -i as appropriate to install

Fedora comes with yum install tool that automatically resolves dependencies. I'd recommend logging in as root and trying that, otherwise you can end up in dependency hell.
See
man yum

I ran yum update install, it says no package mark for update /obsoletion. Is it correct ?

When i double click the .rpm, it says package already installed. If i issue rpm -i xxx.rpm and it reported that xxx.rpm conflict with xxx.rpm package in system. Those in my system now is more newer than this file. Btw openssl is in which component of Add/Remove application ? Thanks

Regards
Daniel

Maybe you have an older or newer version of openssl already installed.

What is the output of the following commands:
openssl version
ls -l /usr/lib/*crypto*

Hi sorry late reply. Below is the reply from ls- l /usr/lib/*crypto*

[root@mp420 /]# ls -l /usr/lib/*crypto*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1833612 Oct 5 2004 /usr/lib/libcrypto.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jun 26 01:38 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so -> ../../lib/ libcrypto.so.0.9.7a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 227362 Sep 1 2004 /usr/lib/libk5crypto.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 26 01:25 /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so -> libk5cry pto.so.3.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 26 00:34 /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3 -> libk5c rypto.so.3.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 136044 Sep 1 2004 /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3.0

If i issue rpm -q openssl ,
openssl-0.9.7a-42.1
openssl-0.9.7a-40

So what seems to be the problem ? Pls advise. Thanks

Regards
Daniel

I tried rpm -q libopenssl and it say package is not installed. Any idea why ?

Rgds
Daniel

You have libcrypto installed but it may not be the version that this Bind is expecting, or the Fedora package did not set up a symlink that this Bind is expecting. I've seen that kind of thing before in Mandrake. I can tell you that libcrypto.so.4 should be a symlink to the currently installed libcrypto library but exactly what the .4 signifies and if it refers to a particular libcrypto version, I have no idea. Adding the apparently missing symlink to my currently installed library has always worked for me in the past.

Try the following. If no error, try BIND again:
ln -s /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7a /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.4

Hi, what is symlink ? Thanks

Reagrds
Daniel

Hi, there is no error message after issue that command, just blank. Is that make symbolic link ? connect the 2 files ?

Regards
Daniel